The Majestic. It might have been a good movie if Jim Carrey's character had been a Communist, if the townspeople who lost their sons in World War Two kept saying, "Thank God for Russia. They did most of the fighting." And if they had re-opened the theater to show Soviet and pro-Soviet films.
As it was, I didn't care for it.
But my mother wants to see it again and again so I don't know how many times I've sat through it. It's anti-McCarthyite in a simplistic way. If only someone had thought to talk about the First Amendment to the House UnAmerican Activities Committee the way Jim Carrey did.
The voices of Rob and Carl Reiner are in the movie as studio executives. They're now neo-McCarthyites themselves. Rob Reiner is on the Advisory Board of a group calling itself The Committee to Investigate Russia. It must be serious if Meathead is leading them.
Carl Reiner is bit more modest. His latest tweet:
Happy to report that my eye doctor did a fine job which makes allows me to continue watching and enjoying seeing and sending tweets about all the daily goofs and gaffs in which our Russian colluded President has been involved.
No comments:
Post a Comment